Markets Shake Off Mediocore Jobs Report

2/1/2013 10:14AM

Barron's Funds Columnist Brendan Conway joins the News Hub to preview the Friday markets, saying that even though the jobs numbers came in low, the markets are up. Conway also highlights stocks he's watching in the market. Photo:Getty Images.

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... the the ... we want to move now to markets to get a sense for how will markets really react ... specifically to the jobs number this morning Brendan Conway ... to give protection from them Brendan ... Rolfe ... morning morning ... markets and doing fine ... and so is the market actually ... market of justice in a job after the jobs report ... I've Dow was up about seventy points at last check ... you know ... folks are looking at fund flows particularly of notice him lots of small time investors getting into the game ... and so the fact that the market is up even though the Jahja fortress connoisseur so ... doesn't really surprise me people like stocks right now ... there's a lot of talk about the so-called creed rotation from bonds into stocks and only the one I see it but it's certain looks like there's more Reuss e painting appear okay I'd ... talk about the other three stocks in particular you're looking at St yet once interesting as Dell DELL was up about seven percent the market ... has been a lot of buyout chatter there ... Reuters is actually reporting that the buyout deal could happen as soon as Monday ... I was ... in the ... first for the CEO ... Michael Dell would be Krenicki mover ... I'm the and also on a happy for Silver Lake Partners ... Micra soft playing a role to test an interesting one was also Legg Mason ... the Legg Mason is interesting ... that stock was down a bit ... of these funds losing just talked about good for asset managers ... didn't show up for Lake last quarter ... they also still searching UCLA they cannot ... seem to settle a CEO so that stock is down ... the third one I mention the stock could really important ... the yen ... the yen has been weak for couple months now say it's down ... more than half a percent vs Dollar ... big deal ... ah for people who treat currencies that's great news for Japanese stocks think Japan adding a little